Conway subtly tries to distance herself from the hush money scandal: "I became campaign manager for the winning part of the campaign and never was involved in anything of this sort, nothing, zero... President Trump has said he never directed anybody to do that." pic.twitter.com/lYclAMOsSL

CONWAY: True or false - Trump said he never directed Cohen to commit a crime.

CUOMO: I'm not going to take him at his word when he has a record of lying. He didn't know about Stormy payment. He said Cohen guy was a PR agent, then he says he's his lawyer. The facts are clear. pic.twitter.com/zvmZbTR8gY

Full audio: Presidential candidate Trump is heard on tape discussing with his attorney Michael Cohen how they would buy the rights to a Playboy model's story about an alleged affair Trump had with her years earlier, according to the audio recording "https://t.co/YmC0QuDqTxpic.twitter.com/fBbq7r1Lq9

Trump, who likes to stiff people who work for him, was late reimbursing Cohen for the payments which led to Cohen paying them off himself later on.

Obviously that’s not quite the slam dunk defense any reasonable person would take as evidence of innocence, so Conway pivoted to discrediting Cohen and Pecker and claiming the payments, made in October of 2016, had nothing to do with helping Trump’s presidential campaign:

Conway's next attempted defense of Trump is that the hush payments to women made during his presidential campaign weren't actually meant to help his presidential campaign pic.twitter.com/CraI2jCwwd

This also contradicts what both Cohen and Pecker have said about the payments. This is the crime Cohen pleaded guilty to and the crime a judge sentenced him to three years for committing, so Conway is essentially saying Cohen decided to go to jail for no reason at all.

Given that Trump has repeatedly lied about the Daniels and McDougal payments—and given that he lies about virtually everything else, to the point that his own former personal lawyer described him as a “f****ing liar”—why should we take his word over that of federal prosecutors?

Conway went all-in on his criticism this morning in another subtweet directed at anyone who gives their loyalty to Trump:

It’s also worth noting Cuomo got plenty of pushback for, once again, providing a platform to a proven liar. Cuomo’s CNN colleague Don Lemon criticized his decision to have Conway on, in part because viewers aren’t served by being lied to:

“It is not a right for someone to come on CNN and lie and deflect,” Lemon said during the toss. “This was a defective, dismissive and histrionic display of non-answers.”